Provence D'Aliso

Provence D'Aliso covers 21.1 acres and the city's address layer records 233 addresses inside it, sitting on just two mapped parcels, which points to attached housing. Two circles carry all of them, Gauguin and Matisse. The city zones the whole 21.1 acres Residential Medium Density, where the municipal code allows up to 18 units to the gross acre across townhomes, condominiums and smaller lot single-family homes, and the measured figure works out to eleven addresses to the acre.

Hillview Park adjoins the boundary, 23.6 acres kept by the Aliso Viejo Community Association with hiking trails, walkways, picnic tables and a drinking fountain. Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park begins 510 feet away and Aliso Canyon Community Park at 90.8 acres is 1,192 feet. Capistrano Unified's own address locator assigns this ground to Wood Canyon Elementary for TK through grade 5, then Don Juan Avila Middle and Aliso Niguel High. Wood Canyon stands 0.11 miles off and Aliso Niguel High 0.16 miles, the shortest distance from any of these fifty boundaries to a high school.

Two circles, Gauguin and Matisse, and a name that puts them in the south of France. Matisse spent much of his working life there, at Nice and at Vence, and Gauguin painted in Arles with Van Gogh before he left for the Pacific. It is a small community, 233 homes on 21.1 acres laid out in 1989, and it wears its theme on only two street signs.

The Aliso in the name is the older word. Aliso is Spanish for alder, applied along the water here to the California sycamore, and Aliso Creek runs 19.8 miles from Loma Ridge to the ocean at Laguna Beach. About seventy archaeological sites have been found along it, and it was the boundary between Acjachemen land to the south and Tongva land to the north.